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- Title
"It Came, Over and Over, Down to This: What Made Someone a Mother?": A Reproductive Justice Analysis of Little Fires Everywhere.
- Authors
McKee, Kimberly D.; Gibney, Shannon
- Abstract
Ideologies of motherhood reflect the complexities and contradictions of what it means to be seen as a worthy parent—someone who deserves to care for children—in contrast to those deemed unworthy or undesirable. The family is a site of contestation when accounting for the ways maternalism and white supremacy affect racialized family systems in the lives of people of color in white American suburbia. In a critical engagement with the 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and the 2020 Hulu -released series by the same name, this essay reveals the contours of non-normative kinship formations, including surrogacy and adoption. These kinship ties demonstrate the tensions of motherhood as a gendered, raced, and classed phenomena. A reproductive justice framework reveals the way Little Fires Everywhere —the novel and the series—demonstrate the legibility and legitimacy of some families over others in exploring the contingencies of kinship.
- Subjects
LITTLE Fires Everywhere (Book); REPRODUCTIVE rights; NG, Celeste, 1980-; HULU LLC; FAMILIES; WHITE supremacy; INTERRACIAL adoption; CHILD care; INTERNATIONAL adoption; SURROGATE mothers
- Publication
Feminist Formations, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
2151-7363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ff.2023.a907924